Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1624)

Author
John Fletcher
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£28,119 2s 6d £11,720 10s 6d (41.7%) £16,398 12s (58.3%)
1732 - 1809
£28,119 2s 6d - (100%) £11,720 10s 6d (41.7%) £16,398 12s (58.3%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
249 130 119
1732 - 1809
249 130 119
Notes
Published in 1640.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
30 Nov 1772 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Register Office No No No £232 2s 6d 56% N/A
11 Dec 1772 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay, Comic Dance No No No £199 19s 6d 61% N/A
02 Jan 1773 Covent Garden Rule A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £120 3s 6d 41% N/A
06 Oct 1773 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No £93 4s 29% N/A
22 Oct 1773 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Padlock No No No £239 17s 66% N/A
02 Dec 1773 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Golden Pippin No No No £106 8s 6d 31% N/A
24 Nov 1774 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Lyar No No No £228 15s N/A N/A
11 Feb 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, Harlequin's Jacket No No No £254 5s N/A N/A
14 Mar 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Rival Candidates No No No £261 11s N/A N/A
17 May 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, A Trip to Scotland, Gramachree Molly No No Yes £117 1s N/A N/A
11 Oct 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Theatrical Candidates, Harlequin's Jacket or The New Years Gift No No No £163 19s N/A N/A
05 Dec 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Devil to Pay No No No £270 14s N/A N/A
20 Dec 1775 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, The Sailors' Revels No No No £270 12s N/A N/A
14 Feb 1776 Drury Lane Rule A Wife, The Sultan, The Sailors' Revels No No No £270 6s N/A N/A
02 May 1776 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rival Candidates, The Grand Garland Dance No No No £253 6d N/A N/A
18 Nov 1778 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Camp No Yes No £212 11s 6d N/A N/A
20 Mar 1779 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, A Monody, The Miller of Mansfield No No No £185 3s N/A N/A
02 Oct 1779 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £167 8s 6d 100% N/A
25 Jan 1780 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Flitch Of Bacon No No No £121 1s 6d 36% N/A
04 May 1780 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No Yes £284 7s 6d 29% N/A
31 May 1780 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Miniature Picture No No No £93 4s 100% N/A
25 Oct 1780 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Critic, The Force of Love No No No £182 12s 6d N/A N/A
28 Nov 1780 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Deserter No No No £85 10s 33% N/A
15 Feb 1781 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Robinson Crusoe No No No £165 3s 41% N/A
30 Oct 1781 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Gentle Shepherd No No No £196 10s 62% N/A
27 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Comus No No No £91 13s 6d 26% N/A
15 Jan 1784 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Harlequin Junior No No No £218 19s 6d 53% N/A
06 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £276 17s 6d 50% N/A
11 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Damon and Musidora, Grand Dance No Yes No £327 14s 64% N/A
15 Mar 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rival Knights, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £273 14s 73% N/A
22 Apr 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Rival Knights, The Sultan, Grand Dance No No No £191 10s 6d 49% N/A
27 Oct 1784 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, Leap Year, or A New Way of Wooing No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1784 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £120 3s 6d N/A N/A
12 Feb 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan No No No Unknown N/A N/A
17 Feb 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Barnaby Brittle, Pastoral Sports No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Apr 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, Leap Year No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1785 Drury Lane The Convivial Coterie, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, The Caldron, The Slave in Chains No No Yes £224 18s 6d N/A N/A
11 May 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Lawyer's Panic, Three Weeks after Marriage No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
27 Oct 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Appearance is against Them No No No £169 18s 50% N/A
13 Dec 1785 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Piping Pedlar No No No £180 5s 6d 43% N/A
02 Feb 1786 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan, The Recruiting Sergeant, The Piping Pedlar No No No £254 18s 47% N/A
28 Oct 1786 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £176 17s 47% N/A
10 Jan 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £195 9s 47% N/A
31 Jan 1787 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Wapping Landlady No No No £254 4s 6d 55% N/A
02 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife No No No £133 12s 34% N/A
19 Feb 1787 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Sultan No No No £235 10s 6d 42% N/A
20 Nov 1787 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Farmer, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £166 7s 6d 55% N/A
12 Feb 1788 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Three Weeks after Marriage No No No £141 16s 44% N/A
06 May 1788 Drury Lane Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, Le Matin Midi et le Soir, Too Civil by Half, The Conjugal Frolick No No Yes £250 6s 24% N/A
29 Oct 1788 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Poor Soldier No No No £185 19s 6d 100% N/A
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